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...Jaeger said the discussions have been of mixed success, depending on the location or unit, because of the differing budget situations and managerial personalities. While emphasizing that discussions would continue at several schools and departments, he also said he wished there could have been a "few more weeks" for negotiations at many locations...
...That's the bad news about Mayo's success: it's not sustainable. The harsh reality is that smart, conservative, data-driven, patient-focused medicine is not necessarily profitable medicine. Last year, Mayo lost $840 million on $1.7 billion in Medicare work. It compensated by charging private insurers a premium for the Mayo name, but they're starting to balk. "The system pays more money for worse care," says Mayo CEO Denis Cortese. "If it doesn't start paying for value instead of volume, it will destroy the culture of the organizations with the best care. We might have...
...probably qualify as "rationing," but anyone who's ever had an insurer refuse to pay for something knows that health care is already rationed, in the sense that you can't always get everything you want. Still, oxen would be gored, and the backlash could be nasty. The ultimate success of Obamacare might depend on a cultural change among doctors and patients, a national realization that more care isn't better care. "We've got this ethos that the best doctors do everything under the sun and rule out every zebra," Emanuel says. "And hey, they get paid more...
...several points, Obama found himself jousting with the newly feisty crowd. He tried twice, without any success, to limit a reporter to only a single question. He criticized McClatchy's Margaret Talev for prefacing a personal question about his smoking habit with a discussion of its policy implications. "I think it's fair, Margaret, to just say that you just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being relevant to my new law," Obama chided. The President accused Tapper of playing "ombudsman" for pointing out that the President had declined to answer...
...addition, international troops are already deployed across Africa in hot spots such as Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as a long list of post-conflict zones. Overstretched and under-motivated by lack of success in Darfur and Congo, the world is increasingly looking to a more confident and assertive Africa to solve its own problems. On June 22, Odinga appealed to the "IGAD [Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Eastern Africa], A.U., E.U., U.S.A., the U.N., all to combine forces" but acknowledged that despite similar appeals from the government in Mogadishu, "unfortunately, no country has come forward...